Last updated on: 2024-04-01 03:24:20.

bigip_ssl_pkcs12 – Manage BIG-IP PKCS12 certificates/keys

New in version 1.0.0.

Synopsis

  • Installs, updates, and removes PKCS12 certificates and keys on/from the BIG-IP.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
attributes
string
added in 2.3
The attributes the resulting filesystem object should have.
To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system.
This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr.
The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.

aliases: attr
cert_pass
string
Passphrase with which the PKCS12 file is encrypted.
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
When set to true, any existing certificate/key with the same name is overwritten by the new import.
group
string
Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.
When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.
mode
raw
The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have.
For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, V('644') or V('1777')) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, V(0755)) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances.
Giving Ansible a number without following either of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results.
As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, V(u+rwx) or V(u=rw,g=r,o=r)).
If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created filesystem object.
If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object does exist, the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used.
Specifying O(mode) is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.
name
string
The name of the PKCS12 certificate and key to create or override.
This parameter is mandatory when state is absent.
When state is present and the parameter is not given, the certificate and key name is derived from the source parameter.
owner
string
Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.
When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.
Specifying a numeric username will be assumed to be a user ID and not a username. Avoid numeric usernames to avoid this confusion.
partition
string
Default:
"Common"
Used to check for the existence and removal of installed PKCS12 keys and certificates.
selevel
string
The level part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range.
When set to V(_default), it will use the level portion of the policy if available.
serole
string
The role part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
When set to V(_default), it will use the role portion of the policy if available.
setype
string
The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
When set to V(_default), it will use the type portion of the policy if available.
seuser
string
The user part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
By default it uses the V(system) policy, where applicable.
When set to V(_default), it will use the user portion of the policy if available.
source
path
Full path to a PKCS12 file to be imported onto the BIG-IP.
Parameter is mandatory when state is present.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Certificate and key state. This determines if the provided certificate and key are to be made present on the device or absent.
unsafe_writes
boolean
added in 2.2
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem object.
By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem objects, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem objects, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner.
This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating filesystem objects when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes).
IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.

Examples

- name: Install PKCS12 cert and key
  bigip_ssl_pkcs12:
    source: /root/baz.p12
    state: present

- name: Install PKCS12 cert and key - force
  bigip_ssl_pkcs12:
    name: foo
    source: /root/baz.p12
    state: present
    force: true

- name: Remove PKCS12 cert and key
  bigip_ssl_pkcs12:
    name: foo
    state: absent

Return Values

The following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
name
string
changed
Name of the PKCS12 cert and key to be created/overwritten.

Sample:
some_cert
source
string
changed
Local path to PKCS12 file.

Sample:
/root/some_cert.p12


Status

Authors

  • Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)